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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Liza Johnson’s Return

Short film filmmaker and installation work artist Liza Johnson is among of the folks that we included in our inaugural American New Wave 25 series, and we're expecting a breath of fresh air in the subject matter she examines in her feature debut. In cinema, post-traumatic stress disorder following war traumas has been done to death, but I'm betting this discourse might have a little more to offer than previous viewpoints -- the small town template includes a shifting of the family paradigm and if the perf is well-calibrated then I think we might see Scooby Doo thesp Linda Cardellini's name mentioned during awards season same time next year.

American New Wave 25: Liza Johnson

There was once a time when folk in the film business stayed away from anything that was war-themed, but then some unique insight (The Messenger, The Hurt Locker) started to trickle in and I wouldn't say that the business is more receptive to the idea, but there appears to be a lot of room for unconventional exposes focusing on the apres war syndromes. I think we'll soon be adding Return to this list.

Gimme an “A”: Rooftop Films Adds Grant Coin to Eliza Hittman’s Next Feature

We every small grant headline comes a glimmer of American indie hope. After the successful launch of her sophomore feature Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman...

Sundance ’16: Tim Sutton, Nicolas Pesce, Bernardo Britto, Matt Johnson & Anna Rose Holmer Break into NEXT section

We might look back to 2015's 10 film line-up as a true vintage year for the NEXT section. With the likes of Rick Alverson's...

It Felt Like Love’s Eliza Hittman & Up the Yangtze’s Yung Chang Among Dozen Selected for ’15 January Screenwriters Lab

Eliza Hittman (was love at first sight for her directorial debut It Felt Like Love) and Yung Chang (a docu-helmer best known for the...

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